By Joe Palmer
Wishing for you a better life now and in eternity
President Barack Obama wants people who have a disagreement to stop demonizing one another. It sounds so good to say we should stop demonizing others. Other than the large word it sounds exactly like something a Mom or Dad might tell two siblings who are fighting. One can hardly find a way to disagree with the statement, until you connect it to an act and a way of thinking.
Should we stop demonizing people who are racist and claim that being a racist is their right?
Should we stop demonizing people who are abusing children and then say the abuse is okay.
Should we stop demonizing the serial killer who goes out to murder innocent people?
Does a rapist have a right to rape? Is it demonizing him to call his action a crime and morally wrong?
Should we stop demonizing the actions of Hitler?
President Barack Obama strode head-on Sunday into the stormy abortion debate and told graduates at America’s leading Roman Catholic university that both sides must stop demonizing one another. President Obama stated this as our common ground. “We can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions.” 1
The problem is those moral and spiritual dimensions. Abortion is the taking of a life, murder, it is morally wrong. It is morally wrong for the woman to take the life of her unborn baby in the same way it is for a baby once born. It is wrong for the doctor to participate in her crime. It is wrong for the nation to make laws that justify this act.
President Obama called us to use, “fair minded words. ” That sounds good but let’s put it in context. What would a fair minded discussion have sounded like in Germany while Hitler was slaughtering the Jews? During that era there were people who had those fair minded conversations. Many believers were silent in regards to the slaughter of the Jews. It didn’t affect them. It was men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who after having escaped Germany, went back to stand as a voice against the crimes of Hitler that made a difference. He died at the age of 39 because he discussed the issue in fair minded words.
What would a fair minded discussion sound like between an unborn baby and its mother who is considering an abortion? The baby might say, “Mama I love you I want to live.” The Mom would respond “But I am in college and I don’t have time to be a mother now.”
Our President went on to say that we can work together, to stop unintended pregnancy, encourage adoption, and support moms who carry their babies to term. I’m sorry, but that doesn’t solve the moral dilemma. The baby is still dead. How do we come to grips with the fact that the #1 killer of unborn babies is their mother aided by a professional doctor. I do have a proposition for all of America. Let’s stop abortion as an act of convenience and then work on unintended pregnancy, encourage adoption, and help parents learn to be responsible and raise their children. If our president, the congress, and Senate will vote to do this, then’ I’ll be a part of the rest of the solution. Until we stop abortion is a problem with moral and spiritual, and eternal implications that will destroy our nation.
(1) http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/05/obama_tells_notre_dame_graduat.html
